Archive for the 'Cuba Style' Category
Introducing A Very Wolfsonian Excursion to Havana
• January 27, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, conservators, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, library donors, museums, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Amelia Pelaez, Casino de Capri (Havana), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cubaocho Museum and Performing Arts Center, Enrique Riveron, Ernesto Lecuona, Francis Xavier Luca, Habana Hilton, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Hotel Plaza (Havana), Jill Otto, Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Little Havana, Louise Levin, Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017), Perez Pradp, Prelude to a Night in Havana, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Roberto Ramos, Rosa Lowinger, Social (magazine), tours, travel, trips, Yeney Ramos
Nostalgia for Cuba: an exhibition, an installation, school visits, a fair, vintage automobiles, a film-noir thriller, and more…
• May 31, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, cars, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, curator, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, Joe Louis, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: "Brown Bomber", "Galveston Giant", 1950s, A Lady Without Passport (film: 1950), Advertisements, Alec Guinness, antique automobiles, Barbara Bollini Roca, baseball, beisbol, Boxeo, Boxeo y Beisbol: The Cuba-U.S. Sports Exchange, boxing, Burl Ives, Carteles (magazine), Cuba Nostalgia, CubaNostalgia, expos, Expositions, fairs, Ferries, Havana Collectibles, Havana Habit (book), Havana Nights (film series), Hedy Lamarr, Hotel Nacional, installations, Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, John Hodiak, Kaiser Sedan, Kid Gavilan, Marco Ansia, memorabilia, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami-Dade high school students, Minnie Minoso, nostalgia, Our Man in Havana (film: 1959), race, race relations, racism, Social (magazine), sports, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, vintage cars
CALL ME AL: GANGSTERS AND GAMBLING AT THE ULTIMATE “GIN-JOINT”
• November 1, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, archives, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, museums, Photograph albums, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1920s, Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, alcohol, Alphonse (Al) Capone (1899-1947), anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Ashley Abess, Bacardi, Bliss Van Den Houvel, bootleggers, bootlegging, Cathy Leff, Chae Dupont, Chicago, Chris Adamo, Christina Frigo, Cicero, corruption, Craig Robins, crime, criminals, Daniel Milewski, Don Soffer, Edward ("Easy Eddie") O'Hare (1893-1939), Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar, flappers, Frank J. Wilson, fund-raisers, Gabrielle Anwar, gambling, gangland slayings, gangsters, Gonzalo Acevedo, Graft and Gangsters, Halloween, Harry Gannes, informers, IRS, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, Jacob Burck (1907-1982), jury-tampering, Kelly Gazo, Linda La Rocque, Mafia, Miami Beach Greyhound Racetrack Archive, mob, mobsters, molls, murder mysteries, Prohibition, Scarface, Sheet music covers, Tax evasion, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Volstead Act, World Red Eye
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: A HODGE-PODGE OF MATERIALS PULLED FOR A VARIETY OF WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY VISITORS
• May 26, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley, book art, Christopher DeNoon, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Cuba, Cuba Style, David Almeida, decorative arts, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FTP, Futurism, Genoa, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Holocaust, international expositions, Italian design, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mellon curriculum development grant, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Shenandoah Middle School, Spanish-American War, Steve Heller, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Virtual library displays, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968), Alexander Gordon, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bacardi archivist Patricia Suau, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley (1868-1962), calendars, Caribbean tourism, comparative colonialism, Conrado W. Massaguer, Dopolavoro, Fascist Italy, Festa dell'Uva di Rovereto, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Good Neighbor Fleet, Graphic Design & Advertising Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Hendrick Nicolaas Werkman (1882-1945), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), International exhibitions, Italian Futurism, Ken Botnick, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), Margaret Dikovitskaya, Mellon grant recipiants, Miami Ad School, Moore-McCormack Lines, New Deal America, Nicolas, Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Professor Peter Andrew, Rex Chung, Rosanne Gibel, Stephen Austin University (Texas), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Thomas C. Ragan, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Varadero Beach (Cuba), When Hearts Are Trumps / by Tom Hall, wine, Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), Winifred Elysse Newman, Wolfsonian fellows, World's Fairs
HOLIDAY IN HAVANA: VISITORS MAKE A STOPOVER AT THE WOLFSONIAN ENROUTE TO CUBA
• March 17, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in Cuba, Cuba Style, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, political art, postcards, posters, prohibition, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Advertisements, American intervention in Cuba, Bohemia (periodical), Che Guevara, commercial advertising, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban Independence Movement, Cuban revolutionaries, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Fidel Castro, Frederic A. Sharf, Guerra de los Diez Anos, Holiday in Havana (1949), Jose Marti, Rochelle Pienn, Spanish- American War of 1898, sugar industry, tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba travel, U.S.S. Maine, William Randolph Hearst
SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
• April 10, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in +five, acquisitions, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, Steve Heller, Times Square Style, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: library donors
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